DevOps Case Studies

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DevOps, the fusing of software development (Dev) with IT operations (Ops) is growing in popularity. A maturing of the agile software development methodology, DevOps unites developers and IT operations to release high quality code into solidly performing environments more rapidly than is possible with traditional developer-to-ops handoffs. It solves a basic problem that arises with agile methodology, namely that quickly producing new code is of little use if it cannot be deployed on reliable infrastructure. We nvestigate the ways that DevOps can generate a return on investment (ROI) for an organization that makes DevOps part of its IT strategy. DevOps certainly has great potential for business impact, with beneficial effects reaching far beyond the IT department. The ability to release high quality code efficiently confers benefits on both the income and expense sides of a business, measurable in hard dollars as well as intangible advantages such as increased brand equity. Getting DevOps to pay off is far from a push-button process, however. CloudMunch offers a number of suggested practices based on its experience in DevOps with large enterprises. Business success with DevOps involves choreographing between people, organizational culture and the DevOps platform and tools. The paper explores practices related to setting up DevOps so that everyone on both Dev and Ops teams can get early, instant feedback on project work. In addition, it looks at practices to ensure that DevOps tools and processes can access the entire application lifecycle, which is critical to DevOps work.

The document discusses how DevOps is changing the role of quality assurance (QA). It argues that with software increasingly delivered as a service, the focus of QA must shift from testing software to ensuring quality across four dimensions: functionality, operability, deliverability, and coherency. The new QA role involves representing the customer perspective, facilitating requirements understanding, and acting as a "boundary-spanning mirror" to help development, operations, and other teams understand each other and customers. Continuous delivery requires QA to test outside-in across the full customer experience and help build quality into the entire service delivery process.

This document discusses how DevOps can enable digital transformation. It defines "being digital" as creating business through digital products/services and innovating for end-user experience. DevOps is presented as a paradigm shift that can help deliver digitalization through a collaborative mindset, continuous feedback, ecosystem collaboration, and automation. The document outlines key challenges to DevOps adoption, such as business/IT alignment and skills gaps, and proposes initiatives in areas like collaboration, standardization, customer experience, and self-service IT to drive digital transformation benefits.

My presentation from the DevOps Summit Amsterdam by Xebia. I shared my experience from DevOps transformations, what works what doesnt.

Rosalind Radcliffe presented on shifting mainframe software development left to enable continuous integration. She discussed how mainframe applications today rely on outdated development and testing practices. Radcliffe proposed automating deployment of test environments, refactoring applications into services, implementing interface testing using virtual services, integrating production monitoring into development, and using operations data to optimize applications. Case studies showed how financial institutions reduced testing time from weeks to hours and increased test coverage using these practices. Radcliffe's key takeaways were that mainframe development needs modernization, automated testing capacity is critical, and interface testing and virtual services are good starting points.

What is DevOps ? What it can bring ? Why and How the web giants put these concepts into practice ? How to implement DevOps in your IT dept ?

As IT organizations adopt a DevOps strategy, continuous testing (CT) becomes a key ingredient of the DevOps ecosystem. CT enables faster release cycles, more changes per release, upfront isolation of risks, and reduced operations costs. The approach to scale the traditional automation testing infrastructure, test environments, and test data management requires a culture shift using new tools and techniques. Sujay Honnamane discusses a CT strategy for aspiring and already implemented DevOps organizations. Sujay shares examples of tools, techniques, and practical solutions that include continuous integration using the Jenkins CI server, service virtualization through CA Lisa tools, automated code coverage analysis to create impact-based tests, automated test script load balancing for effective use of test environments, and faster test cycles, providing a holistic approach/workflow for CT. Sujay and his teams have successfully implemented CT for several clients in their DevOps journey to achieve a repeatable and highly predictable software delivery process.

The document discusses the technical aspects of a DevOps transformation. It states that technical aspects should include always-ready, automated, uniform, and independent releases on all virtual environments using the latest software inside resilient containers with service discovery and multi-stage history-enabled feedback systems. It then provides explanations for each of these elements across 14 slides to fully define what achieving this technical standard would entail for an organization's processes and infrastructure.

DevOps is the act of managing two distinct but complementary areas of expertise: development and operations. Devops emphasizes collaboration and integration between app developers and IT operations professionals.These 10 business advantages of DevOps can help you see why it's important for organizations to adopt this methodology if they want to stay competitive in the digital economy.

This document discusses metrics for measuring DevOps transformations. It begins by listing symptoms that can occur without proper measurement, such as downtime, customer dissatisfaction, and high employee turnover. It then discusses challenges with measurement, such as measuring too many things or prioritizing individual performance over team productivity. The document categorizes metrics by dimensions like operations, business, culture, and lifecycle stage. It provides examples of metrics for different stages like development and production. Principles of measurement discussed include automating metrics, using metrics to drive excellence, and ensuring metrics show trends over time. The document advocates measuring efficiency, effectiveness, and culture to optimize DevOps transformations.

The document introduces DevOps concepts including why DevOps is needed, its principles and goals. It discusses that DevOps aims to reduce the time between code changes and production deployment while ensuring quality. DevOps promotes a culture of collaboration between development and operations teams through practices like automation, continuous integration/delivery, and sharing of knowledge. It also covers DevOps maturity levels, team topologies and categories of tools that can support DevOps workflows.

This document discusses DevOps concepts including the teams involved in DevOps (development, build/release, QA, application, and OS teams), DevOps processes like continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment, and DevOps tools. It defines DevOps as a culture and set of practices that promote collaboration between development and operations teams.

How does DevOps impact our tools? This presentation looks at how tools from development to release to monitoring fit together to deliver better for the whole team.

This document provides information about the DevOps Foundation certification course. It begins with an introduction to DevOps and why it is important for organizations. It then describes the DevOps Foundation course, which provides 16 hours of foundational knowledge on DevOps principles, practices, culture and automation. The course benefits include being comprehensive, holistic, interactive and helping organizations create a common understanding, identify opportunities and lay a foundation for further education.